The United Kingdom: The RISHI RICH Sunak ERA (1 Viewer)

He's pulled the UK Climate Change Minister (Graham Stuart) back from COP so he can vote for this garbage.

Good to know his priorities are well and truly in order.
 
The right wing rags are going all in again and not even trying to look like a NEWSpaper, splashing blatant opinions and agendas on immigration across their front pages.

It’s always something that winds me up - the headline reads FURY OVER ‘IMMIGRATION INVASION’ as though the entire country agrees with them but the actual copy refers to a single “source inside number 10” which even then is not even a thing. Cunts.
 
It's classic bad journalism. Basing a headline and a whole story on something a Tory has said is a complete dereliction of duty and yet, it's all we get from the DM and the Torygraph. To paraphrase, don't tell us that a Tory has said it's raining, look out the fucking window and tell us if you get wet.
 
Imagine if our Prime Minister put as much energy into properly serving the British people as he does into obsessively trying to save his lame duck Rwanda bill

He’s clearly done nothing but grovel to and court Tory rebels the last 72 hours while we continue to drive towards a recession and an economy tracking woefully below the rest of the G7

Useless fucking twat
 
As shit as it is that this bill has passed, it also means we are saved the horror of Suella as PM......FOR NOW.
 
bypass said:
As shit as it is that this bill has passed, it also means we are saved the horror of Suella as PM......FOR NOW.
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Yeah I did think that if this one didn't pass we'd get something even worse. I've not been paying too much attention but isn't this bill piss weak and unlikely to actually work anyway?
 
Apparently it has go through more stages of Commons/Lords pomp and circumstance before being passed, but I have a feeling he'll politik his way through and get it passed. He's putting all his energy into this at the expense of, you know, running the country, so he must feel there's a reason for putting all his eggs in this basket. Because fuck knows what other reason he's got for dying on this sword.
 
To keep the party together. The reality is that the Tories have always been split but that split is deepening and widening. Cameron only saw off a shift to UKIP due to FPTP and Johnson did a dodgy deal with Farage but Reform UK are, again, a threat to the Tories always having the right wing vote with no splits. If Sunak can't keep the party together and Reform gain traction, or even get a few defections, the Tories are potentially condemned to grim future. Now, this is good for you and I but a disaster for "the party". And that's all this is for, appeasing the fascist wing of the party, keeping the evil, nasty, kill the country for a few quid more, professional bastard wing. I wish every single MP who voted for this a miserable life and a painful death.
 
I Saw Funky Kissing Santa Claus said:
but I have a feeling he'll politik his way through and get it passed. He's putting all his energy into this at the expense of, you know, running the country, so he must feel there's a reason for putting all his eggs in this basket. Because fuck knows what other reason he's got for dying on this sword.
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I don't think he can get it passed, which is why the initial "he's pulled off a victory" jeer seems to have become a realisation that it's just deepened the issue further when it comes back in January.

Both 'sides' seem under the impression that they'll be able to make the policy more to their liking now it's through. But it can't stay as it is (or maybe even dialled back a bit) while simultaneously being "tightened up". And while I may have agreed that Boris Johnson could probably bluff his way through this, Rishi Sunak has neither the charm nor likeability to do the same. It seems almost certain to backfire spectacularly on him at some point in 2024, either through his own MPs or because Rwanda - now the moral and legal arbiters of the Conservative Party - wash their hands of the whole thing.

And yes, it seems utterly bizarre that he's stuck with this policy when he had a chance to throw it all in the bin along with Suella. But what else has Rishi Sunak actually got? He's met one of his five pledges to halve inflation (despite having very little to do with it), but does anyone actually feel any better off for it? "Stop The Boats" is the only other pledge where the data upon which it's based shows any downward trend, so I think that's why he's jumped on it, given there's nothing else for him to show after a year in charge.
 
Inflation has gone down despite the Tories, not because of them. They'll trumpet it anyway.

GE in March, please.
 
Inflation only went down because the TRUSS sent it through the roof! They should absolutely not get credit for something that is just returning to normality (and even then it’s not - it’s still way too high and the knock on effect on the economy will be felt for years, possibly decades)
 
this guardian editorial piece is so on-point

www.theguardian.com

The Guardian view on economic stagnation: a chronic syndrome causing toxic politics | Editorial

Editorial: The prolonged absence of growth causes social divisions that the Conservatives would rather exploit than address
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The government’s fixation on immigration is a diversion and a delusion. Resentment of foreigners is easily stoked in difficult economic times. But Rishi Sunak is kidding himself if he thinks a desperate, botched anti-migrant crackdown will earn him credit with voters, who are abandoning the Tories because they have systematically downgraded Britain’s quality of life for more than a decade.​
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This week’s parliamentary theatrics show the Tories deep in denial of the reasons for their unpopularity. In that respect, economic data and opinion polls tell a similar story: stagnation is not just a condition of low growth. It describes the chronic debilitation of politics under a government that is itself the biggest obstacle to renewal.​

these motherfuckers have truly hijacked the country for what will be 14 years by election time. insane political soap operas should be on air for six months before things get back to normal. there is so little actual governance happening in the UK!
 
Jark said:
there is so little actual governance happening in the UK!
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This is it for me. So many people are struggling and they are still obsessed with playing the PR game. They're all in it for power and reputation, and due to the fragmentation of the party they're so preoccupied with gaining favour from within, their own party and core supporters, at the expense of the country. In that sense Sunak is no different to Johnson, to Cameron. They're all the fucking same. Anything to get their named engraved on a wall at Eton so they can lord it over their old bum chums at University.

It's absurd.
 
It is incredibly frustrating because you know that if NHS waiting lists showed the slightest hint of a downward trend, the Tories would currently have "STOP THE WAITS" or something that might ACTUALLY help people plastered over everything.

I do think they're chasing the Rwanda deal SO intently because it's likely the only other viable route to being able to claim ANY form of 'success' against the pledges. There are, of course, other reasons (:eyes:) why it's a convenient policy to latch onto, I'm certainly not discounting that.

Nonetheless, I really do feel there's a pushback starting to happen on the rhetoric now in the media. Not from places like the Daily Mail, naturally, but every time one of the Tories wheels out the line, "This is what matters to the British public" in defence of the Rwanda deal, the retort seems to be increasingly along the lines of: "IS IT REALLY, THOUGH?". I think that is a good thing.

I'm torn between wanting them to realise this and govern sensibly (or as sensibly as they can) for a bit and not wanting them to do anything that passes as competence which undoes some of the damage they're currently inflicting upon themselves. I'm not honestly sure there's any hope of that now, though. They really seem too far gone.
 
To be fair you can't have a Minister for a department that has no manifesto, vision, direction, policy, laws, support, resource, funding....

:EmilyMeh:
 
The Grauniad reckons the Tories are going to start a three year review of all s[pending in order to bind Labour's hands. SOUNDS ABOUT RIGHT.
 
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